Elif Shafak The Forty Rules of Love-爱的四十条规则

作者：Shafak Elif

书名：The Forty Rules of Love《爱的四十条规则》

中文简介：沙法克是土耳其最负盛名的女作家，她的作品广为人知。在她的笔下，东西方文化、过去与现在，轻松融合，一段引人入胜而又妙趣横生的故事就此诞生，向读者讲述了爱如何在这个世界发挥作用。沙法克在这本小说里展开了两条平行的叙述线，一位是13世纪时，鲁米遇见的精神导师——大不里士的流浪托钵僧沙姆斯;另一位则是现代一个郁郁寡欢的美国家庭主妇。她受到鲁米爱的信息的启发，鼓起勇气改变自己的生活。

英文简介：In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz—that together incarnate the poet's timeless message of love. 


Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read and report on Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara. Ella is mesmerized by his tale of Shams's search for Rumi and the dervish's role in transforming the successful but unhappy cleric into a committed mystic, passionate poet, and advocate of love. She is also taken with Shams's lessons, or rules, that offer insight into an ancient philosophy based on the unity of all people and religions, and the presence of love in each and every one of us. As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mir­rors her own and that Zahara—like Shams—has come to set her free.